Try "M-Train" by Pylon.
― Dan Peterson, Monday, 19 January 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
hey dan
here's Dave Thomas doing "Final Solution" with the Commandos : ) : ) : )
damn this was fun....
also good news: Raised $10,000 for Laura!
― CoppaFeelie V (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 22 January 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks, I saw that linked via tcpunk.com. Wish I could have gone; I didn't manage to see the Commandos at the state fair either. How was the actual Bush Tetras portion of the show? I saw them/liked them several times back in the day. Pulled out my old ROIR live cassette for in-car listening this week. 10 grand = awesome!
― Dan Peterson, Thursday, 22 January 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
well, i guess i have no point of comparison and am sad to say i don't know their material very well, outside of "too many creeps", but they were really awesome i thought, like def on par with bands like gang of four and wire that's i've seen in recent years, better actually...but yeah i was super impressed...the woman who played guitar was really mindblowing IMO
btw is tcpunk down now? i tried to go on and couldn't yesterday
― CoppaFeelie V (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 22 January 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
moley, also see APB, Method Actors, Delta 5 for a few more in that direction.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 22 January 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Folks on Facebook are reporting that Laura Kennedy from the Bush Tetras has passed away. RIP. She was slowly recovering from the liver transplant I thought. I enjoyed the Bush Tetras when I saw them way back when at the original 930 club on F St in DC in the early 80s.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2011/11/rip_laura_kennedy_bush_tetras.php
That was her bass playing on "Too Many Creeps"
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
:( RIP
― sleeve, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Dammit, I was hoping when I saw this thread revived that this WASN'T the reason. Ferociously great live band that imo never quite harnessed that power in their slim recorded output. Love their funkypunky stuff, but it's this dirge that gets me the most. RIP Laura.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mN-OfxmOGA
― actually good except for brain freeze (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
very sad. i hadn't heard "rituals" for years and then heard it again playing in generation records in new york the other week. timeless.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Unreleased album from 1998 finally getting released this month! (they were supposed to play Los Angeles on Sunday, but Sandy scotched it)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 November 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
i saw them open for the fall in 1997 and they were not good IMO.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 2 November 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
i saw them in 2004 & 2006 and they were good IMO.
― stirmonster, Friday, 2 November 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
I saw them in 2011 and they were good IMO
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 November 2012 04:46 (eleven years ago) link
video by cynthia sley's son austin, for a track from the lost '98 album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlyPdKr6cP8
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Friday, 1 March 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Playing live in SF tonight annnnd live session later today on PressureDropTV at 2 pm Pacific Time
https://pressuredrop.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=183a11b8bd5c1d60f320a156c&id=531bea1caa&e=1d5a786f8e
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 May 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
Just saw them tonight... At least two-thirds of the set was all new songs. One in particular (called "Unstoppable Hum" or similar?) is great, full-on motorik with Pat Place's splattery guitar everywhere. Apparently there's a new album coming out soon on Third Man.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 April 2019 05:52 (four years ago) link
Belatedly heard and like the single on third man. Really good.
― candyman, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
Bush Tetras Announce New Career-Spanning Box SetPitchfork
New York punk band Bush Tetras have announced a career-spanning box set. Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras features 30 songs across three albums, along with a 46-page book with never-before-seen photos, essays penned by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, the Clash’s Topper Headon, Pitchfork contributor Marc Masters, and more. The box set will be available in 180-gram vinyl and CD editions. It arrives November 12 via Wharf Cat. Listen to remastered versions of the band’s tracks “Too Many Creeps” and the Henry Rollins–produced “Cutting Floor” below (via BrooklynVegan).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVOzOnqzoj8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj6Bb2X_q5w
Box Set Details
VINYL BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES:
Rigid Lift-Off Box w/Lift Ribbon3 x 180 Gram Vinyl LPs46-Page LP-Sized Perfect Bound Booklet w/Never-BeforeSeen Photos & Orignal Essays29 Remastered Tracks
CD DIGIPACK SPECIAL FEATURES:
2 x CD / 4-Panel Digipack40-Page Booklet w/Never-Before-Seen Photos & Original Essays30 Remastered Tracks
Tracklist
1. Too Many Creeps !2. Snakes Crawl !3. You Taste Like the Tropics !4. Punch Drunk !5. Cold Turkey [Live in London] !6. Things That Go Boom in the Night !7. Das Ah Riot !8. Cowboys in Africa !9. Rituals !10. You Can’t Be Funky !11. Moonlite !12. Dum Dum !13. Stand Up and Fight !14. Page 18 !15. Color Green !#$16. Mr. Lovesong [Alternate Version] !#$17. World @18. Motörhead !19. Pretty Thing !20. You Don’t Know Me !21. Heart Attack !22. Ocean !23. Nails !#24. True Blue25. Red Heavy26. Out Again27. There Is a Hum28. Seven Years29. Sucker Is Born30. Run Run Run [Live in San Francisco] @+31. Cutting Floor @+
! OUT OF PRINT+ ONLY AVAILABLE DIGITALLY@ PREVOUSLY UNRELEASED# PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED (VINYL)$ PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED (DIGITAL)
This can be preordered at their Bandcamp page:http://bushtetrasnyc.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-paranoia-the-best-of-bush-tetras
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 1 October 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
We are so very sad to say that Dee Pop passed away in his sleep last night. The band meant everything to him. He was an amazing drummer, one of the best, and a very dear friend. We'll miss him daily. Our event at Howl tonight will be more of a memorial for him and his legacy. pic.twitter.com/g5qR8V7Sxi— @bushtetrasnyc (@bushtetrasnyc) October 9, 2021
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 9 October 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
Aw, damn. RIP. Such a cool drummer.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 9 October 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
Steve Shelley has apparently joined the band
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/bush-tetras-welcome-drummer-steve-shelley-to-the-band-announce-showounced/
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
Beauty Lies rereleased:
https://bushtetrasnyc.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-lies
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
BACK!
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/01/punk-funk-legends-bush-tetras-we-had-no-rules-song-structure-didnt-exist-it-was-nihilistic
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 14:11 (eight months ago) link